FINANCE AND TRADE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5558, 8 April 1905, Page 9

FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Customs revenue received yesterday totalled £l6lO 3s 9d. Laery and Co., Limited. Jervois quay, report the following selling prices on the Wellington market:—Wheat, fowls’ 3s (kl to 3s 8d; feed oats. 2s. Id to 2s 4(1; discoloured oats. Is lid to 2s ; barley 2s lOd to 3s: seed oats, 2s 4cl to 2s. Gd: Cape barley, 3s; Now Zealand flour, £lO 5s to £lO 10s; Adelaide, £lO 10s; bran, £4 to £4 10s; oatmeal, £lC_ 10s ; pollard, £6 10s to £7; rolled oats (s'«), 9s 6d per dozen ; oaitsheaf chaff 80s to 90s per ton; straw, £2 10s to £2 15s ; maize, 3s 7d to 3s 9d : fresh eggs, Is 8d to Is lOd: limed, Is 5d to Is Od; potatoes, sound, 7s to 8s per cwt; onions, 7s to 8s Gd : cabbages, Is to Is Gd; cauliflowers. 3s Gd to 5s Gd: lettuce, Gd to Is Gd per case; cheese, factory 4Sd to 4}d, loaf size sd: butter, prime Bd. inferior Gd, to 7d, bacon, best factory 7d to 7(d, . hams. 71d, rolls 7'd per lb ; split peas, 15s; pearl barley, 15s; hens, 3s to -3s Gd; roosters, heavy- 3s Gd to 4s; ducks, 4s Gd ■ .to 5s Gd; turkeys, hens 10s, gobblers 14s, all at per pair; ryegrass. 4s 3d to 5s per bushel; Prussian blue peas, 4s Gd per bushel; swedes, 2s Gd: mutton birds, in casks, ud; fungus, 4d; oilcake, £6 10s: table carrots! 2s to 4s per sack: parsnips 3s to 4s Gd . bonedust, £7: cocksfoot, 3d to 4fd ; white clover, 85s; cowgrass, 755; swede and turnip seed, 55s to G2s Gd: peanuts. 2Jd per lb; superphosphate, £4 15s per ton; l ice meal, £6 per ton; barley meal, £G 5s per ton.

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London office, dated the stli Inst.: — “Since bur last telegram (29th March), price of tallow in general is unchanged. Poor demand for prime mutton tallow.” Tlio following messages came to hand yesterday, dated London, April 6th: —

“Frozen moat—'Market dull. New’ Zealand beef—Ox hiiids, 18E))b to 2201 b. fair average'quality, 3d lb; fores, 2Jd. Prime, quality civ Zealand mutton (Canterbury)—Crossbred wethers and maiden eaves, f.a.q., 3|d to 4Jd per lb. Australian mutton, crossbred and merino wethers, light-w-aights, under 60i'h, 3d to 3Jd. New Zealand- crossbred frozen lamb lower by id to id per lb. Prime Canterbury, 321 bto 401 b, s|d to SJd; North Island, 5Jd to sJ<l. Australian, lamb, prime, 321 bto 401 b, 4|d to 4|d per lb." “Danish butter— Since our last telegram (30th March), prices are lower by four kroner (about 4-3 sd) per cwt.” “Since our last telegram, prices for merino and fine crossbred sheepskins are higher by id lb. Coarse - crossbred —Prices are lower by id.” , ' . ,

YESTERDAY’S SKIN, WOOL, AND HIDE SALE..

1 The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report as follows; —At our sale wo sold about 1000 1 skins! 100 hides, and a quantify of wool. There was good competition, and prices /were about on a; par with last sale’s rates. / Our next sale'-will'be held'on' Friday, 28th instant! We quote:—Sheepskins—Halfbred and merino, none offered; crossbred, GJd to 7d; lambs’, Gd to 7id; short-woollod crossbred, 5Jd to Oidys.dead, 5d to Gd; inferior arid broken, 4d to ,od - green skins, 2s to 4s 3d. -Wool—Coarse crossbred, Gd to Gijd ; crutchings, 4<l to 43d; pieces, 3Jd to 4Jd. Hides—Heavy ox, 23s to 27s Od; light, ; 18s to 21s; cow, heavy, 18r> to IS>5 ; light, 7s Gd to XGs Gd;. calf, Is to 3s Gd each. ;

Levin and Co., Ltd., report: : —We offered 25 bales of 'wool, 2400 skins, 250 hides, and a quantity of tallow. There was’ no change in the’ price for wool, and skins sold at recent rates. We quote:—Merinos, 6-Jd to 7jd; lialfbreds, 7d to 7(d; fine crossbreds, 7d to 7jd; coarse crossbreds, 6|d to 7d; dead, sd, to sjd; short wools, sjd to 6Jd; lamb skins, Gjd to 7fd; lamb skins, green, to, 3s ; pelts, 4s. ; Tallow—ln casks ,17s 9d, tins IGs: rough fat, 14s. Hides are steady. .'. We (quote:—Cow, light 12s to 16s, medium 16s to 18s. hoary to 20s; ox, light 16s to 225, medium 22s' to 20s 6d. Owing to Easter intervening, the next sals will not be Held until April 2Sth.